Miura

[jezrider]

I have a muira resto project tucked in the corner of my workshop (no i dont own it!) Walk past it every day but can never ignore it, sitting there all gorgeous like a smug supermodel!
If someone reminds me how to post pics i shall get some up here....

[dinkel]

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[jayfish]

dinkel said:

Big difference in follow up.

never really noticed it before but the DNA is there to see in the countach, replace the curves with angles, flatten the bonnet but retain the rise behind the (squared off) lights, keep thw side light design and flatten the hauches into angular muscles, replace rear quarters with intake grills...

Edited by jayfish on Saturday 24th January 01:03

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Anybody want to go halves.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/861437.htm

[stephen300o]

jayfish said:

dinkel said:

Big difference in follow up.

never really noticed it before but the DNA is there to see in the countach, replace the curves with angles, flatten the bonnet but retain the rise behind the (squared off) lights, keep thw side light design and flatten the hauches into angular muscles, replace rear quarters with intake grills...

Edited by jayfish on Saturday 24th January 01:03

Yes then shorten the bonnet, lengthen the rear three quarter section, rotate the engine ninety degrees, then just move the radiators to the rear, change the doors, change the wrap around screen for a flat one, swap wheels, change the low intakes for naca ducts and........ hang on it's not very close at all.

[dinkel]

Check this months Octane . . . yum.

[dinkel]

Ding dong!


12 pot, just behind the hairs of your neck.


Needs a body . . .


Beyond bad ass. An amazing creation by the young Gandini.

[dinkel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M1CHYoJj0

1972 Lamborghini Miura SVJ Bertone V12 driven by the famous test driver Valentino Balboni at Villa d'Este.

Listen how the V12 sound compares to period V12 Ferraris.

[dinkel]

Oops.

Giugiaro said. “Gandini took my sketches and finished the car – 70% of it is mine.”

Read the article here.

"The mid-engined sports car was supposed to go to Bizzarrini, but Nuccio Bertone decided to offer it to Lamborghini instead. Giorgetto’s successor at Bertone, Marcello Gandini, completed the car… Giorgetto’s contribution is often overlooked."

[dinkel]

Part two of the story here

"Work began on constructing the prototype’s body in January 1966, and there wasn’t even time to do proper drawings of the interior, says Stroppa. Gandini’s rough sketches became the basis for an interior to be constructed “on the run”, while Stroppa worked on the design of the wheels and the famous Miura logo."

[dinkel]

Best Miura clip so far:

http://www.kidston.com/kidston-news-item/163/The-R...

Thank you Simon Kidston.

[dinkel]

Waiting . . . so drooling over 'new' Miura snaps"

Starring in 'Il commissario Pepe', 1969


Simon last summer.


Stunning.


Brothers in arms.


Every now and then a Miura gets found . . . lost somewhere . . . yeah, right.

[elms]

Think I've posted on this thread before. But I had one back in 2009 and used it pretty much daily in the early days of ownership, tales of the nose going very light at speed was researched and proved to be true. How test drivers pushed them to 160+ is beyond me.

Sold it when the value had increased by 100% in about 24mnths and it wasn't getting used much at all, and oddly the last time I drove it was in the snow when it was the first thing on the drive and was heading out for Sunday lunch in bright winter sunshine and came out a few hours later to find about 6" of snow had fallen whilst I had been stuffing my face.

[dinkel]

Maybe heavy the nose with a bag of sand? Modern tires / shocks will help I guess.

[dinkel]

[L100NYY]

Oooft.

[dinkel]

I keep it going you know.

[L100NYY]

Good man young Dinks

[dinkel]

[SAB888]

Couldn't find a general Miura thread hence this one. Never seen anyone driving a Miura like this before,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZqxFhmfyw